Faಌmed Moto2 and Moto3 team owner Aki Ajo is rep𝄹ortedly set to replace Francesco Guidotti as team manager at the factory KTM MotoGP squad in 2025.

Reports that Guidotti, who joined KTM from Pramac in 2022, was set to leave his role as part of internal restructuring by the Austrian manufacturer emerged last weekend at the Emilia Romagna ꧅Grand Prix.

Guidotti didn’t deny these rumours when asked about it on the grid ahea🍬d of the sec꧅ond Misano race, but also didn’t address them head on.

There were rumours that Dani Pedrosa, who is currently a KTM test rider, could take over th♎e🍎 team manager role set to be vacated by Guidotti.

However, given Pedrosa’s current role with KTM largely keeps him out of the spotlight and offers him more time at home, this seemed unlikely. KTM de🧸nied to mahbx.com tha🌸t Pedrosa would take over.

Reports from now state that Ajo will ꦫtake over fro🍰m Guidotti, granting him a long sought-after role in MotoGP.

Ajo has a long-standing rel🍨ationship with KTM through his Moto3 and Moto2 squads, which have yielded 10 world championships w🅰ith riders like Marc Marquez, Brad Binder and Pedro Acosta.

Should Ajo take over the team manager role at KTM, it’s not💞 clear h🔯ow his role with his Moto2 and Moto3 squads will change.

However, his son Niklas — who used to race in the Moto3 World Championship - currently works in the Ajo squad as♌ an engineer and could be promoted to take care of the day-to-day running of the outfit.

All of this comes as KTM has gotten further away from t൲he front of the grid in 2024, with its victory drought now dating 🌺back to 2022.

Binder is currently the le🍒ad KTM rider in the standings, but is 176 points 💟behind championship leader Jorge Martin and hasn’t stood on the podium since the opening round of the season in Qatar.

Acosta has scored three grands prix podiums in 2024 sಌo far, though had to🧸 wait eight races between his second and third rostrums in MotoGP.